And even though he is so often a hack, it's a shame to consider that his wicked, woebegone, derivative-but-delirious "noir world" will never get the careening showcase it deserves. We are past those times, I'm afraid--the "slick shit" has usurped all the bandwidth and anyone "following in my footsteps" will need 18 tons of bonafide charisma to get a series such as the one below in front of an audience...

But just in case Dan H. is lurking, he (kinda) asked for it, and better late than never--even if it is "never going to happen"...

THE ENGLISH
No Orchids for Miss Blandish/The Grissom Gang
The one "that started it all"...and the Robert Aldrich remake
Man Bait aka The Last Page (with Diana Dors)/Dark as the Night (Playhouse 90)

THE FRENCH
A Kiss for A Killer aka Une manche et la belle/There's Always A Price Tag aka Retour de Manivelle
(classics with Mylene Demongeot and Michele Morgan)

Young Girls Beware aks Mefiez-vous les fillettes/Hit & Run aka Delit de fuite
(not so classic but I have a soft spot for Antonella Lualdi...perhaps "soft spot" is a misnomer, eh?!)

Highway Pick-up aka Chair de poule/Crime on a Summer Morning aka Par un beau matin d'ete
(Crime in the countryside, reminding us that Duvivier > Deray)

A Little Virtue aka La petite vertu/The Flesh of the Orchid aka La chair de l'orchidée
(late sixties/mid-seventies: high eye-candy quotient (Dany Carrel, Charlotte Rampling)

THE GERMAN
The World in My Pocket/The Mark of the Tortoise
(Very different caper films, with strong female leads--Nadja Tiller, Hildegard Knef)

THE SOVIET (?!)
Mirage aka Miraza
(Mini-series based on The World in My Pocket...read the IMDB reviews!)

--Not quite sure how to order it: probably intersperse the various nationalities and separate the common source novels as much as possible.

It's just way too "inside baseball" at this point, alas.